Well, it seems that one of the IMVU patrons finally found out why this business deal is somewhat bad on their end. I'll just drag the quote over.
"I won't assume that you are referring to my post but in case you are, please allow me to clarify. I have no intention of dismissing and/or demeaning you and yours or any other furry here or on FA. My concerns are not even furry based. My shock is that Varsha posted a direct link to a site that with the entry of a user name, an email address and a password, any underage child from THIS website can access pornographic material on the FA site. Not only is this against their own TOS rules, but they placed it here in an all age area of the forums and are very proud of it. Within 3 clicks of being on the FA site, my eyes were reading very explicit pornographic stories and viewing questionable images of child-like video game characters engaging in adult relations. THIS whole thread does NOT belong in a GA area of this forum. THAT is what I am disgusted by, not by you and your community. Hope that helps to clear that up. May you rule your day!
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Now we just have to wait for IMVU's private investors, or points card carriers, to hear about this and the real storm can begin.
I am the person you quoted from the IMVU forums. My response you quoted was in response to another post I made earlier, which may or may not have been assumed that I was calling the furry fandom 'disgusting'. Below is my previous post, screenshot for your conveinence.
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I have been reading this entire thread since last night. I have read every single post on it. I have laughed at the quick wit of some of the users and mentally slapped a few others for dumbing me down. I have been a member of IMVU for over 5 years. I am a 42 year old woman, loving wife and devoted mother. I am not a ditzy bratz-styled lame-assed teenager. I own my home, pay taxes and jump on IMVU to chill with me and mine. I am a content creator who does so to support myself financially. I hang out in game with my real life husband, my best friend, my sister and my sister-in-law. We get together and laugh, chat, shop, design and just have fun within our group. There are a ton of mistruths being spread about the member base of IMVU and maybe I could set a few of them straight. Or you could just tell me to go to hell.
*First of all, most importantly, IMVU is not the only ones who make real world cash in game. Creators are permitted to sell their credits earned to Registered Resellers, whose sole purpose is to buy credits off of the user base to resell at a cheaper price to other members. There are some designers who are making 6 figure real world salaries off of their virtual catalogs. Google Registered IMVU Resellers to check them out for yourself.. NOT ALL DESIGNERS STEAL ARTWORK!!!! NOT ALL USERS SELL ILLEGALLY GOTTEN CREDITS!!!!
*Just because you find a product in the store with stolen art, does not necesarily mean THAT particular user themselves stole it. There are many users who sell files (texture packs), as well as art they claim is theirs, such as DP's (default pics), homepage layouts, banners, etc. These are sold via in game credits and Paypal and mostly sold through private groups on the app. When finding a piece of your own work on IMVU, you must go through the links of the derivative to find who uploaded it. If you find a 0kb upload in someone's store, it is just a repost with a higher price tag added to it. Some folks even HIDE the original creator and reupload as their own, but going back through the blue links will allow you to sometimes find the original creator. Only VIP's have their items shown in the store. If you are a creator and do not have an active VIP account your products are removed from the store base. So what you see today, may not be there tomorrow, vice-versa. If another user has a direct link to your product and you are not a VIP user, they can still derive from your product (if permitted), buy it, try it, etc. This is true even for disabled/banned users products. You all have your work cut out for you!
*UFI (unfit for IMVU) products are not permitted on IMVU. There is an underground illegal user base in IMVU that sales UFI products on the blackmarket. You can Google IMVU blackmarket to satisfy your own curiosities. I will not hotlink them here. If you are found to be selling UFI products, you are immediately banned. This is what infuriates me that Varsha would post the direct link to this site in the GA forum, knowing full well it's intended average product base. Over and over I read of how much smut and pornography is posted on this site. IMVU also discontinued use of any UFI product because they could then not advertise their gift cards in the likes of Wal-Mart and such. They wish to be seen as family friendly and by acquiring this site makes us question them now.
*The paywall set in place on IMVU AP is a set process. When I myself signed up for it, I had to verify my age by inputting my Social Security Number and providing a credit card in my name. I also have to regularly send in to customer support selfies of myself holding my photo ID and my credit card to make purchases, such as credits, shared rooms, etc. I am beyond pissed that they callously linked this site to their GA forum after the hoops I must jump through to view adult content, such as a bar, a stripper pole or have access to giving someone the middle finger. We cannot even share our photos from any AP public or private chat room anywhere on IMVU, except the specified AP forum. As you can see from my post above, even the words PORN are bleeped out because it was posted in the GA area of the forums. You cannot have anything AP wise on your profile card, or listed in any of your interests or share any of your AP photos in any public album. Your default pic cannot contain any AP items whatsoever, not even an AP backdrop!! But they can direct link in a GA forum to this site that is filled with what we consider to be AP content. We all know underage children lie about their age and this FA site alone has no steps in place to stop anyone from creating a fake account and using it.
*Users can be banned for simply swearing in a GA (General Access) public chat room. ANY product tagged for reporting can get a very innocent GA rating slapped with an AP rating and there is nothing you can do about it. You can be disabled if you wrongly flag a set amount of new products through Peer Review (how items are approved into game). I personally have 15 wrongful flags against myself because what I did not pass was perfectly allowed through IMVU on the GA rating, so they claim. I no longer participate in the Peer Review activity due to this because I do not wish to threaten my account. Each user makes 5 credits per review, up to 750 credits daily. These are considered preedits and can only be used to purchase items for yourself.
So now you have an idea of why I am infuriated with the FA post on the GA forums. A better understanding of what you have to look forward to and I am open to any questions you may need to know about the app itself. Maybe also a few of you could stop ragging so badly on the average IMVU user base as well. Some of you are just cold hearted!
